I live in Brisbane and am on Australian Eastern Standard Time. I currently tutor online on weekdays only, during my mornings (which suit students living in the United States and Canada), late afternoons and evenings (which suit students living in or close to my time zone, including the Republic of Korea and Japan). 

Please reach out to me for session availability or if you have any questions at all regarding these sessions. I look forward to seeing your child in class and working with them!

All sessions are conducted through Zoom Meetings. 

This is a weekly, ongoing class offering individual tuition for students in explicit grammar instruction using the workbooks of Sadlier School's "Grammar Workshop: Tools for Writing". As the title suggests, students' understanding of the rules and principles of grammar greatly benefits the development of their writing skills. Consequently, I have found these lessons to be super useful for both first- and second-language (ESL) students. 

I work with Levels Green, Orange, and Blue, which cover Grades 2 to 6. Each book is comprised of six units, and each unit has around seven to nine lessons followed by a unit review. Each lesson has a direct instruction component, followed by practice and application with speaking and writing tasks. 

Here is an overview of the learning objectives covered: 

Unit 1: Sentences, including kinds of sentences, subjects and predicates (both simple and complete), compound and complex sentences, correcting fragments and run-ons.

Unit 2: Nouns, including common and proper, singular and plural, irregular plural, and possessive.

Unit 3: Verbs, including action, present-tense, past-tense, future-tense, linking, main and helping, irregular, and contractions with not. 

Unit 4: Adjectives, articles and demonstrative adjectives, comparatives and superlatives, adverbs, conjunctions (coordinating, subordinating, and correlative).

Unit 5: Pronouns, including subject, object, possessive and demonstrative, relative, and contractions with pronouns. 

Unit 6: Capitalization, punctuation and spelling.

Upon request, I will assign weekly homework and mark each lesson to monitor students' progress. 

All sessions will be personalized to support the attainment of students' individual academic goals. I aim to foster a relaxed, positive, patient, and supportive environment in my classes, where each student feels safe, valued, and recognized. 

I am a qualified teacher with a degree in English Literature and Poetry. I have over sixteen years in teaching experience, and have been a private online tutor for the past five years. I also have a TEFL qualification which I obtained many years ago (in 1997!), and welcome all ESL students.